While deer evade us through their sense of smell, another set of life, mosquitoes find us through the same sense.
Smell is not the only sense that aids animals. What does heat sensing fall under? 'moment of Impact' video on PBS about snakes thermal mapping and woodpeckers with their flexible tongues that wrap around their skulls to handle the pressure while they tap at the wood made me wonder how todays generation can learn so much more.
In Remembering smell, in the 'smell, memory' chapter, author Bonnie says that, Memories are remade with each act of rememberance and its evolutionary purpose was to enable learning; thus it must be highly fexible and subjective.
Experimenting even when the lab shuts down. olfactory cuisine. Achatz survived tongue cancer.
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Sunday, August 01, 2010
Word book
Meaning of Tingo
This book has words from other languages for which there are no equivalents in English.
The words have been sorted into chapters with hello ( the first any one should know in any language),clothing,love,marriage,divorce and so on...in the order they occur.
There are boxed English words 'False friends' which mean quite something else in other languages.
It is extremely interesting to see some 20 odd words for camels, snow and Thailand's capital when spelled totally takes up three lines .
June 8, 2006
This book has words from other languages for which there are no equivalents in English.
The words have been sorted into chapters with hello ( the first any one should know in any language),clothing,love,marriage,divorce and so on...in the order they occur.
There are boxed English words 'False friends' which mean quite something else in other languages.
It is extremely interesting to see some 20 odd words for camels, snow and Thailand's capital when spelled totally takes up three lines .
June 8, 2006
Essay series
Best American Essays 2007
Afternoon of the sex children - Mark Greif
Shakers - Daniel Orozco
Passion flowers in Winter - Molly Peacock
writing:
Dragon Slayers - Jerald walker
Disappointment - Richard Rodriguez
May 24, 2010
Afternoon of the sex children - Mark Greif
Shakers - Daniel Orozco
Passion flowers in Winter - Molly Peacock
writing:
Dragon Slayers - Jerald walker
Disappointment - Richard Rodriguez
May 24, 2010
Sunday, July 25, 2010
THL
The History of Love
If escher's paintings left the easel and went through a typewriter, this is what would come out..
An author's last lap of life belting out a novel,who has already written his 'the novel' on his love in his life as 'The History of Love', A young girl named Alma's (after a character in this book)attempts to find out about the character she is named after, excerpts from the 'THL' novel itself, the story of the believed author of 'THL' and many more such yarns with coinciding story lines.
All this might sound like a jumble, if you are not used to the concepts of novel in a novel and more.
A cautious author would want to have a centralised control over the characters and just have one narrative. But Nicole seems to be very good at churning out as many narrators as the characters.Its one thing to have anarrator speak for each character and another to do what Krauss has done.
Jan 14, 2006
If escher's paintings left the easel and went through a typewriter, this is what would come out..
An author's last lap of life belting out a novel,who has already written his 'the novel' on his love in his life as 'The History of Love', A young girl named Alma's (after a character in this book)attempts to find out about the character she is named after, excerpts from the 'THL' novel itself, the story of the believed author of 'THL' and many more such yarns with coinciding story lines.
All this might sound like a jumble, if you are not used to the concepts of novel in a novel and more.
A cautious author would want to have a centralised control over the characters and just have one narrative. But Nicole seems to be very good at churning out as many narrators as the characters.Its one thing to have anarrator speak for each character and another to do what Krauss has done.
Jan 14, 2006
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
Wide Awake
Watching this movie, you calmly wait to see in what form, Night's creativity is going to unfurl in front of you. Its a nice experiment.
The kid in search of God, trying to look at all other religions in the world is so trying to expand his consciousness at such a small age, which great artists are known to do at the age of 20 and more.
For all those in search of something, here is your 'The signs', that you should go on...
Aug 21, 2005
The kid in search of God, trying to look at all other religions in the world is so trying to expand his consciousness at such a small age, which great artists are known to do at the age of 20 and more.
For all those in search of something, here is your 'The signs', that you should go on...
Aug 21, 2005
Margaret Atwood's
the Blind Assasin
It is an amalgam of nested story lines. Unfortunately 'synergy' did not work to Atwood's favour.
The story of two sisters is very uninteresting. I still read on, to find out why the book is called so. The fictionary tale about the blind assassin's is worth the perseverance.
There is more suspense in the assassin's life than in the death of Laura Chase, the novelist.
I would have given a 5 star to this book, if it was TRULY JUST the story of 'The Blind Assassin'.
Aug 19, 2005
It is an amalgam of nested story lines. Unfortunately 'synergy' did not work to Atwood's favour.
The story of two sisters is very uninteresting. I still read on, to find out why the book is called so. The fictionary tale about the blind assassin's is worth the perseverance.
There is more suspense in the assassin's life than in the death of Laura Chase, the novelist.
I would have given a 5 star to this book, if it was TRULY JUST the story of 'The Blind Assassin'.
Aug 19, 2005
Sunday, July 11, 2010
Diving
In Ponape chapter, in Zinsley's book,The rapture of the Deep, he comfortably dons the role of a marine biologist introducing you to Tunicates that are a link between vertebrates and invertebrates and the move on to the customs of the Pohnpeiian. The anthropologist then winds up marvelling at the ruins of Nan Madol
I happen to be in the posession of Grays Anatomy, so here's the beginning of me waxing about the bones.
Bones - Long
short, flat
and mixed
I happen to be in the posession of Grays Anatomy, so here's the beginning of me waxing about the bones.
Bones - Long
short, flat
and mixed
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